Reviews by Jennifer Gerhardt
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Tithing
On 2/17 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: I recently read Tithing: Test Me in This by Douglas Leblanc, another title in Thomas Nelson's Ancient Practices series. Unlike other volumes in this collective work, Leblanc shies away from personal exploration or scholarly research, choosing instead to study tithing in action. Leblanc takes a journalistic ... Convincing
Five Cities That Ruled The World
On 1/27 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: Read Douglas Wilson's 5 Cities That Ruled the World yesterday. It's a fine but superficial review of metropolitan history considering Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York. Each city receives approximately 40 pages of attention. So, not much new or deep here (a quick look at Wikipedia would provide ... Just Fine
The Sweet By and By
On 1/5 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: This is not the type of book you would expect me to like. It's a Christian romance. I know. And it was written, at least partially, by a famous country music singer. I know. But before all my lit-loving, dead-people-only-reading, snob friends ostracize me, hear me out. I got this book sort of by accident. ... Better Than Expected
The Sacred Meal
On 12/11 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: Just finished Nora Gallagher's The Sacred Meal. I have friends who LOVE it; so, I plan on stepping carefully. As backstory, I should say that I am a huge fan of communion. My love affair with it started about five years ago when I read F. Lagard Smith's Radical Restoration and then John Mark Hicks's ... Gems and Junk
The Liturgical Year
On 11/17 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: This last book I read (The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister) was totally outside my paradigm. I'd heard of liturgy, but I really didn't know what it involved, what it looked like, or why people did it. After reading this book, I'm fascinated. According to Chittister, "The liturgical year is the year ... The Why of Liturgy
Green
On 10/5 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: I just finished (as in read the last word on the last page about seven minutes ago) Green by Ted Dekker. I've been craving this book ever since it appeared in my mailbox a week or so ago. Finally, I sat down with it yesterday to ingest in one monstrous bite. It was delicious. What I love about Dekker's ... This is what life is like...
Fresh Start
On 9/14 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: Overall, I’d say it’s good—not great, not bad. The topics covered are guaranteed to intersect with the reader’s life and the perspective on God and the Christian life is both reverent and accurate. The author’s voice is quirky (distractingly so at times), but by the end I found it endearing. Fields ... A good daily devotional book
Love & Respect
On 8/25 Jennifer Gerhardt wrote: Overall, I think this book fails to execute on an excellent idea primarily because of what seems like a serious bias against women. I posted this possibility on facebook and quickly heard from multiple women who felt the same way. For example, at one point Eggerichs advises men: "Be willing to take a ... Not Excellent